TrialDiabetes care2013

Association of hypoglycemic treatment regimens with cardiovascular outcomes in overweight and obese subjects with type 2 diabetes: a substudy of the SCOUT trial.

Adam Ali Ghotbi et al.PubMed ↗Full text ↗Publisher ↗

What the trial testedas reported · 7,789 people · 2013

Not counted

Reduced deaths

−27%−46% to −1%

Bigger than 8 in 10 for all-cause mortality

As reported

HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.54–0.99 · the paper's word: All-cause mortality

What moved togetherboth groups pooled, not the treatment’s effect

Correlation, not cause

Went with lower glycemic control

−26%−43% to −5%

Bigger than 2 in 10 for glycemic control

As reported

HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.57–0.95

Two numbers in the abstract

the abstract, start to end

… of POE than insulin (hazard ratio [HR], 0.74; 95% CI, 0.57-0.95; P = 0.02).

… was associated with lower mortality (HR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.54-0.99; P < 0.05), …

← favours treatmentfavours comparator →

could be chance

Glycemic control

HR 0.740.57–0.95

All-cause mortality

HR 0.730.54–0.99

MetforminInsulinGlycemic controlAll-cause mortality

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